Chapter 653 — The Heavenly Lord Trapped in the Seal
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From the ball of light came the Heavenly Lord's voice: "So you are a stubborn little devil after all. No wonder you were sealed. I came only to look at you, you amusing little creature; now I shall go."
Shen Fengqing was still hopping and skipping, refusing to give up on catching and eating him. The ball of light flew outward — and just then, beyond the heavens appeared the veining of a willow leaf, blocking his way back. At the same time, the Shen character on the continent burst forth with wave upon wave of demonic light and demonic qi, sealing off the sky!
"Wretched! I've fallen into the seal!"
From the ball of light came the aged voice: "To seal him, Tu Bo paid a great price — he used his own horn to seal him. That willow leaf, pasted upon the eye, will rouse the power of Tu Bo's horn! I am but a single thread of a clone; I cannot break out!"
He had barely spoken when the great Buddha in midair blazed with light, linking the golden willow leaf to Tu Bo's horn.
The Heavenly Lord's thread of a clone was immediately crushed down, falling into the Shen-character seal upon the continent, where it landed and transformed into an old man in white robes — white brows, white beard, white hair, white hair streaming, white brows also drifting before him. He raised his head to look at Shen Fengqing and murmured, "And there is Mahabrahma's seal as well... Of course. It was Mahabrahma who joined the golden willow leaf to Tu Bo's horn, giving the golden willow leaf the power to rouse Tu Bo's seal, and so I am trapped here..."
Shen Fengqing, beside himself with excitement, pounced at the white-robed old man.
Aboard the tower-ship, Shen Mu suddenly felt his brow swell and ache, and hastily covered it with his hand.
"What's wrong?" the First Ancestor Human Sovereign asked with concern.
"Suddenly my brow hurts a little."
Shen Mu felt the pain grow fiercer and fiercer; his palm was shaken so that it trembled without cease. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign said hastily, "Take your hand away, let me see!"
Shen Mu lowered his hand, and the First Ancestor Human Sovereign at once saw that beneath the golden willow leaf pasted on his forehead something seemed to be rolling about, now and then bulging the leaf up, and moreover it was constantly moving.
"Heaven-and-Earth Seal — Heaven and Earth Reversed!"
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign bellowed. A seal pressed lightly upon Shen Mu's brow; the seal art ran through, driving straight into Shen Mu's third eye, its force piercing through, transforming into a great palm-seal that overturned heaven and earth, descending from the sky to strike down the Heavenly Lord's clone as it tried to break through the seal.
The moment this seal art fell, heaven was no longer heaven and earth no longer earth; the Shen-character continent flipped and turned over, and the Heavenly Lord's clone gave a muffled groan, pinned beneath it.
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign withdrew his hand and asked with concern, "How do you feel now?"
Shen Mu said in surprise, "It doesn't hurt anymore — truly, it doesn't hurt!"
The First Ancestor Human Sovereign smiled slightly. "This is the wonder of the Heaven-and-Earth Seal. Cultivate it well; do not fail my teaching."
Shen Mu assented, then ran off to cultivate his primordial spirit together with Ling Yuxiu. The First Ancestor Human Sovereign sighed, his expression bleak.
Within the third eye, Shen Fengqing ran over in high excitement, seized the Heavenly Lord's clone by both legs, and joyfully smashed and flung him this way and that, battering the white-robed old man senseless; then he straightened him out and — crunch — bit down.
"Eh? No taste?"
Shen Fengqing was suspicious. The part he had bitten off was simply a mass of light, with no flavor at all. So he tossed the white-robed old man aside, his interest in him quite gone.